The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1909, Page 15

Mr. Mantell Earnest and Modest in “King John.” BY CHARLES DARNTON. HERE w New Amstordam Theatre last night that resolved {tself into earnestness s a certain modesty about the performance of “King John’ at the | while the acts surely, but not slowly, settled into seven, Shakespeare's historical play, revived after a long sleep, was given, appar- ently, for Its own sake, certainly not for the glory of Mr. Robert Mantell, who had nothing to gain beyond the esteem of t ‘@ who find pleasure in seeing the @nclent things of the stage preserved, Without so much as saying his prayers beforehand, Mr. Mantell buried him- Self in this comparatively uneventful drama. He went back to the days when | Englishmen bought thelr clothes in a hardware store and by a silent decrea mado | the centre of the stage free territory. He did not attempt to make us belleve that he was greater than King John (though we had our own opinion about that), He didn’t rattle his mail to fll our ears with confusion, and he kept a hain on his voice. His one purpose, | evidently, was to give us King John for what he was worth (and we had our own notion about that), Historical value and dramatic worth are two very different things. Mr. Mantell was dis- posed to be absolutely honest about | King John, He didn’t steal any thunder, Honesty was the policy of the whole, Production, Manager W. A. Brady, if we are to belleve what we saw, staged the play with one hand on hts heart and the other In his pocket. The ple- | tures were fine without being conspicu- | ous--we can’t make a flner distinction, | And no time was lost in framing the whole. The performance moved along with such ease and smoothness that those who were subway-bound caught | the clock !n the nearest station at 11.16. | But Shakespeare's blood wasn't spilled | With a reckless hand "Cuts" were made with more consideration and intel- Ngence than has been shown in other did of Sheke- antell as King John. Robert went like {that tragec from moving. and Mr. Br of the produ You really ean & erior ¢) fs hist Mr. M looking and sandy and stexly- n dloodless face purpose 1 over with val tn chain 1 wae 8, he w murder the tidings of the messe é a As the upholder land's: might @jainst § a an Church, Ur. Man uu m deflance e Papal legate one of his But in the fn | scene ope » tyrant’s the horror that best acenes, ess of the Ittle Pr! 1 against Hubert wh © wbout to be put out wa he t Hub @ before th alism tng hollow as C. less cry for Arthur, Philip with Nttle opportunity at Keered the lost Marie Booth Russell as Lady Con- ° . of course, a power In ftself—tn fact, the t well in b nstun, to show the stance. ugh somewhat sel r that was not wi usclous, Miss Leila a certain appeal, 1, But‘he was guilty of a pre-! ¢ curtain with the "dead" boy banging hot be carried to such leng! Miss fe, but In the tent scene, where the ehe was a pleture of wh fair success faced, star: power that {s fn him cause of “King John." tea gown, so I had te | Panhandle Pete SAY, I'VE G01 AN IDEA How To BEAT OUA Board BiLit r'fow DE TRUNH OUT DE WINDOW AND YOU 40 DOWN The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, March 9, 1909. By eorge McManus | \ ALL RIGHT a (A, 8 K ~\ LET HER I WONDER IF T'tn EVER GET OUT OF DE HosriTaL! you /\é YOU DO JAIL FOR / NLL go 0 Safe Froi Inspection. y the day Bi at I g flagst t with the wind blc 1 this conversation 1 t mind bit n't do ft, anyway, df thousand don't k how t. vn Ud do tt for two of ttt bal up as ci When Sambo Casts His Vote. vious to the recent negro pres tration officers in Cle | In the Social Slosh “Why did you it our last ser er complexi my dea let her go.” Man From Home 4 Story Based on the Successful Play of the Same Title, —By— Booth Tarkington and Harry L. Wilson. Copyright, 190%, by American Presa Asso- + elation, BYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. 1 Pike, a shrewd Kokomo (Indiana) Pyare ik puarilan to. two rich orphene, thet 3 Morace Simpson, who are livin bt lorace Sim} . who fA ifurope. Pike has. alw i het ‘as dumbly lover |. She writes him that he fs About to marry the Hoh. Almer Aubyn, son of the Earl of Haweas needy fortune hunt ar w pen Tho Farl's sister, Lad: thel's pald chaveron. ‘The who! At Sorrento, italy, Pike resolves to thar and’ see If Aimetic la, worthy of thel, Meantim: ul comes to the 8 Ing himself Hi castle breaktas @ Countess of Champlgny, ey are vaguely worried at the report sence of a Russian bandit in the neigh hood, ‘Hawcaatle ts also Impatient at Almerte's slowness in proposing to Bthi CHAPTER V. (Continued.) The Engagement. A 8 he finished speaking the !mmacu- late and vacuous Almerle himself strolled nto the terrace, and put- ting up his glass as he came forward, paid eoftly: , “Halla. Governor! Mowdy. Countess!" { Tarkington and H DBDOOFDGDDOLOG With an affectation of boredom he! | Sprawled into a chalr and tapped at his boots with his crop. “Out riding a dit ago, you know, with | Miss G: ger-Simpson, Rippin’ girl, isn't she? | His fathor leaned across the table with tension {n every line of him. "Go on!" he sald anxlously, and Al- “A sort of man In the village got me} to look at a bull terrier pup,'* Almeric went on with a yawn. “Wonderful little | beast “@ points. Jolly luck—easn't it? He has got a head on him"— Haweastle Interrepted savagely. “We'll concede iis tremendous ad- vantage over you in that respect,” he sald, and threw the clgar he had just | lighted into the coffee cup. “Ie that ALL you have to tell us?” implored the Count with @ uramat! | gesture, leaning forward. Aimeric “Oh, no," he sald, "She accepted me," | The Earl dropped into @ chair with a sigh of relief, and the Countess clasped, her hands ecstatically. “Enfin! Bravo! And will she let It be soon?" | Again Almerie stifled a yawn. “I dare say there'll be no row about that,” he replied. “You see, i've made her aw'fy hap-| y Zz sald are.” } Rising he walked quickly up and down! the terrace, and then turned quickly, awcastie, “and thank God you L. Wilson’s Great Love | youth of several c looked up with surprise. }eunty “On my soul I belleve you're right,""| and took bot “How on at col “Fine. me name in all the society fre you getting I was aww papers WICC OOgnOOdO oe Oy for “Here's her br and quickly, “At CHAPTER VI. Easy Prey. Ui’ when a man through !n- he sald softly !agely, and fon now!" [to keep do’ nee that was | choking hi le two effect at his eyes with the handkerct took from his sleeve, and responded thourh 1 Jeed. 1 agsure you I am e, my dear friends. Really, herote eftort , quite overvo ey clination cr e a that the mann meric looked up at him with @ silly) win not serve for him, and tha h a oilvery laugh me de iemniles customs of the land o' Joption are Champlgny stepped backward fror “Didn't stop with her, though," more applicable to his se, he out- him, making @ little curtsey as “Why not?” demanded the Earl) aces oven the nat is conforma. | did 0, The Earl came forward with angrily. | tlon to the existin out is and grasped one of both his own vend,” he said, “Not the Granger | F novation, due json by {t= | at hopelessly ple-| As the remar t even a modicum of at- us, Horace looked at him inquir- tentfon—had consorted with the gilded but reading reassurance jn his pitals, and his edu- ed Instantly: 1 to such an ex-| “T assure you I am Horace Grange: was but ADE emed a trifle am- I assure you I cation had prog tent tat the youth of Kokomo would am, It's qujte overpowering—isn't {t?” Ihave stoned him instantly upon,hla ar-| ‘ith a look of commiseration the rival at the town de Countess regarded him and sald He ambled with a ng galt, drawn | softly: from the guardsmen he h watched, do dso care-| ‘Ah, poor Monsieur Horace!” steps of the! From sprawled attitude tn th nd his attire! of ¢ Honorable Almevic drawled a hotel would tice protest Hindoo {do!. He spotless “L say! Don't take it that way, you flannels, white shoes, pipe-cla | know. 8 very happy dazaling degree, & thoroughly British | Horace recovered himself Instantly straw ha nols gloves and &@ pale} and crossed tue terrace quickly to lue scart held together with a massive] grasp the hand of the bridegroom-to- pearl be. The fact that It was as limp as a Madame la Comtesse him an tn- d then with a little mackerel did not we stant For an Insta looked at y of greet owant the steps e's worthy of It-she's worthy s startled hands, {itt 1 know she is! Ar en will Ah, my de Horace Granger-Seemp- | be, St. Aub * he sald. son," she said excitedly, "Has your) “Enchan cried the Countess, en- acter told you?” thuaiastioally, ‘So clear is his grasp Horace swallowed once or twice sav-/ of the case, en?” > Romance of an American Knight. Oe OugO! Haweastle flashed her a glance and turned to Horace, "Oh, the date?” he sald doubdtfully, "I dare say within a year—two years—" There was another little cry of protest from Countess, and the at her m y. Horace at e e about to , but he con tar off? Th Putting tt Joll settled, Isn't it? Wh not say a month thstead of a year?” ‘Ha- said the Earl. “Oh, Mk: know that there is gpy do, Indeed," return y not let t castle could scarcely conces satisfaction, while Madame de Ch y executed a bit of a pas seu! Horace’s back You carry thir saylms, ‘Why ‘Why not ‘And why ful smile and waved a hand “an, you wonderful people; sted twice last week for pl. don't cher know castle” smil- residence, an Ine ised ttm some por- Can't yo A Jed another o} japplicant’s p terrogatory present hat en konw ro; “but T cai t keep the bah fn mah mind.” I think T By J. K. Bryans | lege, Cholly?” and got Oa. whirlwinds, yet I see no reason why !t | should not be in a fortnight.” | I say, you know!" Sn- co, heaving himself erect waving @ protesting turned on him terjected Al jin the chair, a | crop, Earl boy, y, and why Almeric wilted say, Governor he an Brava!" erled the | Countess, and Haweastle again turned My son is all {mpati he mur- | ared, fixing ve his| © 80 80," answered Al- Quite y his fathor went on se of the necessary various mino nd {nterrupted himself with a ugh and patted Horace upon ck." irse as men Id — you u te d alltles tn the nature of was {n the seventh hea at the appr al {u b 6 of the anctent houses of », Ind., and the hono! | able tine broke In eage: Quite so, of course. I know. Cer. Jer ® no diMculty about hat e my solicitor to ll be here wit Barl, carelessly It your own solicitor, cable him, of couse.’ (To Be Continucd.) two oy where T Ives!" ejac- | name that | There Are | Everybody Is Superstitious; No Exceptions By John K. Le Baron, © en ee VERY ONE { superstitious! Every one believes evory one {s superstitious--but himself, There are no excep: You may pooh-pool | {dea that the raven {sa bird of {'1 You may not belleve in the unluckt- ners of No, 13, You may scorn the nation that Fri- | day is an unlucky day. You may laugh at the silly {dea that | ghosts haunt graveyanis or that there 1s good luck In tho hind foot of a rabbit. | But stowed away somewhere In your} brain Is @ bellef tn some superstition quite as absurd as any of these, ance, but we are none of us altogether wie. As late as 1731 the College of Physi- cians of the Kingdom of Prussia !n- dorsed Helmont's amulet as a cure for ithe plague, Powdered human bones in red wine was supposed to cure certain ments. Prayera were written on parchment jand fastened around the diseased part Ay a sure cure, Bloodroot, having a red juice, was considered a blood purifier; liverwort, having a leaf resembling the liver, was accepted as a cure for diseases of that organ, and bug-gloss, resembling a snake's bead, was a supposed antidote for snake bite, These were the bellefs of the Intelll- gent classes and so-called physicians of the reputabla class prescribed these remedies, their therapeutic efficacy rest- {ng upon no better grounds than those stated here. Many similar fallacies are in vogue among the savage races to-day, and nomenon, | not depend upon hig will. were of and oure those who say that » Notwithstanding (he | oped part of these we are indebted to two gi | and the Invention of government loans. iC OMPLETING his mi Superstition 1s born of tear or tgnor- ail-| HERE are 9 horrors that man does not perpe- | T trate, deciding in his soul that what he is doing {$ something elemental, something that does Such a man ts sick; people | should beware of him and try to oure him, some Which clyillzed people hold are alk nmuost or quite as irrational, We are not very many removes | from the savage. he greatest minds are not free from follies of superstition, Lord Bacon, a man of marvellous ine eet, Was a bellevar In witchcraft, Charles V. was born on Feb. 4 and regarded that day as one of Invaluable good luck. Bismarck was t abo teen Emerson says we are 1 and wrapped j ly superstitlous sitting at table in a party of thir bottomed and usions."* In the days of Petrarch poets were Supposed to be possessed of the devil ‘even by those who admired thelr poetry, Julius Caesar, “the mighty Cae sar,” never entered a carriage with out first repeating a formula supposed to have some magical power to avert accident, Bellini, the great composer, thought It good luck to be first greeted in the i® by a woman, and would not permit any of his new operas to be ‘presented on a day when he had been Nrst greeted by a man, The premier }yvoduction of “La Sonnambula” was |severa'! times postponed on account of | thiz superstition of the composer, ; Yet Bellint would have attached no | Significance to the breaking of a mirror jor passing under a ladder, Richelieu, the ruler of kings, was hime |self swayed by the prophecies of the astrologe | No ma j Wholly j stition, | No man, however small, has ea jcaped it. n, however great, has been free from some foolish supare 2 My “Cycle of Readings,” By Count Tolstoy. —— Transiated by Herman Bernstein, ——= (Copyrighted by the sg Publishing Company, the New York World, 1908.) (Copyrighted by Herman Hornstein.) The italicized paragraphs are Wount Tolstoy's original comments on the subject The Awaken ng. W AR ts not an elemental, but a purely human phe MAR. 9, Even so it 13 neneseary to be war is an elemental phenomenon, RAR re Progress of civilization, represents at the HAT Eure l Present tlme & vast military camp, and that the forces of the most devel- mankind are spent in wars and in preparations for war—for t Inventions; the invention of Indirect taxation Henry Georg. Ne Hon, Jesus established the foundation of new soctety, Befure him nationa belonged to one or to many masters, like herds belong. ing to thelr master, The princes and the strong oppressed thelr people with all the burden of their pride and cupidity | raised the bent heads and Itberated the slaves Jesus put an end to that disorder; he Me taught them that being equal | before God, people should be tree before one another; that no one can have any | power over his brethren; that equality and liberty as divine laws for mankind are inviolable; that to reign cannot be a right; that fn the soclal order {t {s an office, a service, a kind of slavery voluntarily assumed for the general good, Such ta the in- | | not?" he | His teachings must come about through awaken. | says: Salvation ts near,—De Lamennais, |noclety as established by Jesus. Hut do we see this in the world to-day? Does this doctrine prevail on earth? Are the princes of the nations on earth to-day the masters or the servants? For elghteen centuries one generation transmits to the | other the teachings of Christ, saying that thay believe in Him, and yet what has | changed In the world? ‘fhe nations, cr | promised llberation, and, not because the word of Christ was not true or inet- fectual, but because the nations either failed to understand that the realization of ushed and suffering, are all waiting the thelr own efforts, thelr own firm will, or, | having slumbered In thelr humilution, they have not done the only thing which leads to victory—they were not prepared to die for the truth, Something { already stirring among them; they hear a volce which But they will | May Manton’s | ae | Call at THE EVE BUREAU, No 132 East ‘0. 132 West Twenty or stamps for each patt \* How $ to |} obtain | specity size wanted. Ad IMPORTANT—Write id two cents for letter postage If in @ Daily Fashions. | he and used to protect tt, or it can be worn in Place thereof, and it Is Toomy and comfort. able. 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